"What of the vocabulary of comics criticism?" round-up [Blog@Newsarama]

Neilalien fave Fred Van Lente discusses working on all-ages Marvel Adventures books [Newsarama]
"Is it an indication of my age (mental as well as biological) that I find many of Marvel's "kiddie" comics more appealing than their mainline titles?" [Sporadic Sequential]

Sensational Spider-Man #41: Spider-Man marriage undone, Aunt May saved, via Deus Ex Mephisto? [Savage Critic]
Update: Tough questions for "One More Day" [Occasional Superheroine]
One does not kick to Devin Hester, and superheroes do not make deals with the Devil. Are there any heroes left in the Marvel Universe? Not to mention the issues necessary to trade in one's hot wife for one's near-death-anyway mother-figure.

That time R. Sikoryak adapted Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment with old-school Batman as the protagonist [Again With The Comics] [via Drawn!]

You're in good company if you liked World War Hulk more than it got dissed online [2 Guys Buying Comics] [The Hurting]
It brought the explodo, it ended well, it was better than Civil War, it was old-school All-vs.-Hulk, Sentry didn't annoy (and maybe he died), and the Illuminati weren't the reason Hulk's babe died. And Neilalien's still glowing that Doctor Strange and Zom- fer fuck's sake, Zom!- were 20% of it. Not too shabby.

Update: Interview with Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley; attempting to introduce new people to comics via the web and then get them to jump to print (hrmm); creators to only get royalties if the site is profitable (hrmm) [Comic Book Resources]

Out this past week for Doc fans: New Avengers #36, World War Hulk #5 (finale), and Wolverine #59. Neilalien also picked up All-Star Superman #9 and, finally!, his own copy of I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets!

On Cowboys & Aliens, the movie property that was allegedly a comic book: "actual ink, paper and staple comics might just be the least important part of the comic-book industry" [New York Times Magazine] [via ICv2]

Tonight is supposed to be the Simpsons episode with the competing comic book shop and Alan Moore, Daniel Clowes and Art Spiegelman cameos

Great essay: The Cloak of Levitation is neato; can it "cushion" Doctor Strange from physical damage? [A Trout In The Milk]
Neilalien agrees that if the Cloak is a generator of mystical anti-gravitons, then it certainly could protect from kinds of physical harm, pushing, crushing, etc.
Update: The Cloak as Confidence

"Sadly, when Steve Englehart quit Marvel in a huff it was Doc that was hardest hit." [Comics Should Be Good]

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